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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Mar 30.
Published in final edited form as: Australas Phys Eng Sci Med. 2005 Jun;28(2):97–104. doi: 10.1007/bf03178699

Table 2.

Representative polymeric scaffold degradation parameters derived from a previous cartilage tissue engineering model applied to published experimental data.9 Note: τScaffold = scaffold degradation characteristic time constant.

Scaffold material Initial scaffold porosity Reference τScaffold Scaffold decay rate
PGA 97% 32 56.1 days 1.70 x 10−2
PGA 97% 29 24.3 days 4.11 x 10−2